With 100% English Ancestry, I thought it might be really difficult to trace my ancestors back in England from Canada. Only my mother, her father and his mother were born in Canada. This Blog will talk about researching my English ancestors from Canada but also the ancestors of our son in law whose families stretch back far into Colonial French Canada. My one name study of Blake and of Pincombe also dominate my blog these days.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Likely a member of the same King family at Upton Gray and Thomas names his sons Thomas and John and his daughters Mary, Elizabeth and Martha. All are under twenty one years of age. His wife is named as Mary.

A Thomas King was baptized 21 Oct 1633 at Upton Grey son of Thomas and Elisabeth King.

Elizabeth King daughter of Thomas and Marie Kinge was baptized 9 Apr 1672 at Upton Grey.Martha Kinge daughter of Thomas and Mary Kinge was baptized 2 Nov 1674 at Upton Grey. John Kinge son of Thomas and Marie Kinge was baptized 16 Apr 1677 at Upton Grey

A little later on but an interesting baptism of Thomas King son of Thomas and Ann King baptized 9 May 1695 at Upton Grey.

The will of Anne King probated in 1729 mentions that her husband’s name was Thomas King.

1 In the Name of God Amen 2 In the Thirty third yeare of the Raigne of our Sovereigne Lord Charles3 by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland4 defender of the Faith etc in the Tweleth day of October in the5 yeare 1681 I Thomas King of Upton Gray in the County of6 South[amp]ton yeoman being sick and weak but of perfect memoryq doe make this my Last will and Testament as followeth (viz [a vi]t) First8 I bequeath my soule into the hands of Almighty God hopeing that9 through the merits of Jesus Christ to obtain the pardon of all my10 sins And my body to be decently buried in the parish Church of Upton11 Gray And for the disposing of that Temporall Estate that God hath12 graciously given me as followeth Item unto my Eldest sonne Thomas13 King I bequeath and give all my lands in the parish of Upton Gray14 And alsoe in Matingly in Wesson and South Warnbrough called by15 the name of Beedden And also my land in the Mannor of Tucbbirn16 with all the houses Barnes Stables buildings orchards gardens with all17 the appurtenances belonging to each particular place and parcel18 Item I give unto my sonne John King the summe of Six hundred19 pounds of Current English money to be paid him by my sonne 20 Thomas King when he comes to the age of one and Twenty yeares21 Item I give unto my daughter Mary King the summe of Two22 hundred pounds of Current English money To be paid to her by my 23 Executor hereafter named att the age of one and Twenty yeares24 Item I give to my daughter Elizabeth King the summe of Two hundred25 pounds of Current English money to be paid to her by my Executor att26 the age of One and Twenty years Item I give to my daughter27 Martha King the Summe of Two hundred pounds of current English28 money To be paid her by my sonne and heire Thomas King att the29 age of One and Twenty years And if it shall happen That it shall please30 God to take away any of the Children by death That then their portion31 and legasy to be equally divided between the survivors of my Children32 Alsoe I doe ordaine and make my wife Mary King a full and whole33 Executor of this my last will and Testament And to her I bequeath34 and give All my goods Chattells Corne within Doore and without35 Exsepting our Bed and Bedstead with Cortans Sheets Rugs Blan36 ketts Boulster Pillows with all Furniture sufficient for one Bedd which37 I give to my sonne Thomas King Alsoe I give to my sonne Thomas38 Two lether Chairs and three Woden Chayrs in The Foyer Chests and39 one side Tabell Alsoe I doe nominate and appointe John King of40 Wesson South[hamp]ton and Richard Huscat of Bromley yeoman over41 seers of this my Last Will and Testament And for their to be Paines42 I give to each of them the summe of Tenn shillings besides the inhartance43 of all necessary Charges Also my desire is that all things be perfor44 med according to the true intent and meaning of this my last will45 and Testament Lastly I give to the poore of the parish of Upton46 Gray the summe of Tenn shillings In witness hereof to this my Last47 Will and Testament I sett my hand and seale the day and yeare above48 written Thomas King Signed and Sealed in the presents of The mark49 of Ambros Allene George Marshall50 Probatum fuit Testamentum suprascriptum apud London Coram51 venerabili viro domini Leolini Jenkins militis legum doctoris Curie Prerogatiue Cantuariensis52 Magistri Custodis siue Comissarij legitime Constituti decimo die Mensis53 Decembris Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Octogesimo primo54 Juramento Maria King Relicta dictae defunctae Executor in humoi Testo55 nominat Cui Comissa fuit administratio omnium et singulorum bonorum56 Jurium et Creditorum dictae defunctae de bene et fideliter Administrando eadem57 Ad Sancta Dei Evangelia (vageri Comissionis) Jurat